Science Fair Project Submissions
for Free Data Acquisition Starter Kits

Name: Andrew Jorgenson

Location: Harrisburg SD

Grade: 4

Project Description: Andrew would like to make a project to monitor temperatures and light over time to see how fast temperatures change during the day. He wants to find out if it is really true that temperatures change suddenly at sunset/sunrise and then stabilize again. He would also like to monitor fish pond temperatures and see how it affects turtles and fish in their normal daily functions.

Name: Darren Reis

Location: Palo Alto CA

Grade: 11

Project Description: I plan to improve fuel effiency of cars by applying aeronautical concepts. Using a wing that that provides enough lift to cancel out a large amount of the car\'s weight, I will reduce the rolling resistance (friction). Also, by rearranging the shape and layout of the car, I will significantly lessen the air resistance. These two moderations should enable more of the engine\'s energy to be used for moving the car.

Name: Steven Chaney

Location: Tipp City OH

Grade: 8

Project Description: This year I am doing a project to find the most efficient nozzle for a rocket. I will use the DI-194RS connected to a load cell to measure the thrust of my rocket with diffrent nozzles.

Name: Ryland Silberbach

Location: Lake Oswego OR

Grade: 9

Project Description: I am going to make a solid rocket motor using erythritol and potassium nitrate. To statistic test this motor I will use a pressure transducer. I will be more than 500 feet away the motor when it is tested, I will use electrical system to light the motor from a safe distance. I will have an adult supervise all steps of the process. If all goes well and I have a successful test then I will do a flight test of the motor, if not I will go back and start again.

Name: John Gonzales

Location: Orlando FL

Grade: 6

Project Description: To demonstrate the superposition of sine waves and demonstrate how you can create a square wave by the sum of various sine waves using an opreational amplifier based summing amplifier. Demonstrating the fourier transform.

Name: Andrew Klein

Location: Clear Lake IA

Grade: 10

Project Description: My project involves testing and predicting the performace of solid rocket motors with sugar based fuel. The DI-194RS will record the voltage from a hydraulic load cell upon which the motor is fired; giving the thrust produced by the motor. After doing a number of tests I should be able to accurately predict motor performance.

Name: Foster Collins

Location: San Diego CA

Grade: 7

Project Description: I am planning on studying how a typical homeowner migth be able to increase the output efficiency of a solar system. I plan to use a small solar panel and vary the: angle to steer it to follow the sun, amount of dirt on the panels, and maybe various light collecting concepts.

Name: Westen Price

Location: Canton MI

Grade: 5

Project Description: Conductance as a Water Quality Measurement - Electrical conductance is the inverse of electrical resistance. Conductance is a measure of how easily current can flow.

Name: Colin Wheeler

Location: El Paso TX

Grade: 9

Project Description: My project is to compare the performance of differnt battery chemistries (NiCad, Alkaline, NiMH, Lithium) as a function of temperature. My working hypotheses is that warmer temperature will increase battery life and that a more expensive battery will have higher performance. Performance will be determined by measuring voltage over time as the battery discharges through a fixed resisantance.

Name: Emma Radford

Location: Clayton NC

Grade: 11

Project Description: Comparison of Biodiesel and Petrodiesel Fuels to determine which burns the cleanest and produces the most thermal energy. I would like to use the DI-194RS in the calorimeter so I can measure/graph the temperature increase over time, allowing me to integrate the entropy increase.

Name: Hodifa Tunalli

Location: Falls Church VA

Grade: 7

Project Description: We are building small cars that run on CO2 cartridges. In order to get the highest performance from the car, I will need to test a variety of sizes and brands of CO2. My older brother will help me build something to test amount of force out of each co2.

Name: Alex Ziegler

Location: Greenwood IN

Grade: 8

Project Description: Record sump pump cylcles & duration using a current transformer with AC to DC rectification as input to the DATAQ.

Name: Elijah Therrien

Location: Bradenton Beach FL

Grade: 4

Project Description: I want to monitor the temperature and water quality of my two fish tanks and its effect on my fish. Does the amount of salts in the water increase the growth of alga? Does the temperature affect it as well?

Name: Richard Liao

Location: Pennington NJ

Grade: 7

Project Description: I want to investigate the quality of the water arround us to get answers for the questions: (1) which water is better: tap water, filtered water (different filters), or bottle water (different brands)? (2) In the place I live, many families using well water. Are those well water meet the standard? (3) Acid rain indicates air pollution. Is any pollution in our area? By measuring the water conductance, we can estimate the amount of total dissolved solids in water. The water with better quality has less solids dissolved in it,so it has smaller conductance.

Name: Andrew

Location: Dracut MA

Grade: 5

Project Description: Demonstrate how to save energy by managing a home that has people living there. The goal is to reduce energy consumption by shutting down services that run during the absence of people and restoring service during habitation. My goal is to show how a heating system operates a pump and show that the pump can be controlled more efficiently.

Name: John Bolander

Location: Memphis IN

Grade: 10

Project Description: I am using solar cells, capacitors or rechargeable batteries and a new type of LED to design a lamp that could be sold for $35 in third world countries. With the DI194RS I can measure charging and discharging rates for the solar cell to capacitors and then to the LEDs. I will be able to collect data during the day when I am at school (on solar cell output) and record more data and better data.

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